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By The Economist

Business power follows economic power. In the 1920s British firms owned 40% of the global stock of foreign direct investment. By 1967 America was top d…

By Justin Boldenow, Producer of The Solari Report

“An attempt to persuade people or warn people about something they might be missing out on.” – Peter Guralnick on his writing.

In March Cather…

“This is no dream, this is really happening!” ~ Rosemary Woodhouse in Rosemary’s Baby

By Catherine Austin Fitts

For those of us who have regularly followed Glen Greenwald’s reporting of Edward Sno…

By Alyson Shontell and Jay Yarow

Every year, former analyst and venture capitalist Mary Meeker releases an in-depth look at the state of the web. The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner al…

By Michael Olson

The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a public Request for Proposal for the purchase of .40 caliber submachine guns with high-capacity magazines and gender-specific …

By ETC Group

The world’s largest companies are converging around biomass in anticipation of a post-petrochemical future.
That doesn’t mean they’re simply grabbing land and natural resources; th…

By Sumathi Reddy

Children still in kindergarten or even younger form cliques and intentionally exclude others, say psychologists and educators who are increasingly noticing the behavior and taking …

***CAF Note: I have a lot of respect for people who take out a blank sheet of paper and write down how they would organize an economic system here on planet Earth. This one came in over the transom fr…

We don’t want to become a digital colony of global internet giants,” ~ French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The reverberations are everywhere. In the courthouse,…

By Dermot Cole

The U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress Wednesday that it intends to dismantle the $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer.

The s…

By RT

China is calling on banks to stop using IBM servers and replace them with local-made machines amid fears that the nation’s financial security might be compromised via the US-based company’s…

By Tom Braithwaite

A Google or Walmart bank would be attractive to a large slice of young consumers, according to a survey that also shows almost four in 10 people aged between 18-34 would switch to …

By Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt

Nigel Farage has unleashed his much-promised political earthquake across British politics as Ukip stormed to victory in the European elections, performing powerf…

***CAF Note: When Mark Dansie likes a project that I have donated to, I sit up and take notice. Dansie is one of my “go to” guys on new technology.***

By Mike Dansie

I like the vision of solar…

***CAF Note: The transition to smart phones continues…***

By Neil Shah

According to latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor quarterly tracker program, USA smartphone market reached …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Well, the proof is in. The Fed governors see no risk to inflation in their stimulus policies. This is proof that the governors do not shop for their own groceries.

April�…

By MasterCard

In the lead up to the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2014, MasterCard today unveiled “Road to Inclusion”, a new report that profiles the financially excluded and underserved in t…

By Joe Weisenthal

There have been news reports the past few days about how former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke has been going around giving speeches in private to hedge fu…

By Michael Foust

Farming methods that have been used in America and throughout the world for centuries are in danger of essentially being banned under proposed regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

WHO engineered the skyrocketing incarceration rate in the United States? You can learn a lot about WHO did it in my on line book Dillon, Read & Co. Inc & the Aristocracy o…

By Lee Habeeb and Mike Leven

He is America’s most iconic banker. Okay. He isn’t a real banker, but we all know and love him; he’s George Bailey from the quintessential Christmas movie It’s …

By Foster and Kimberly Gamble

Imagine a “point in time” when computers, in the form of robots, are deemed so much smarter than natural born humans that we are called to turn over the world to t…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The American people are so smart. I am laughing my head off reading today’s WSJ. The “Letters to the Editor” are filled with letters from readers outraged by Timothy Gei…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The opportunities to reinvent, restore, and replenish the American economy are endless.

The first opportunity is to let up on the police state and centralized make-work …

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By Vladimir Isachenkov

Russia has ratcheted up pressure on Ukraine, with President Vladimir Putin saying in a letter released Thursday that it only will …

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” ~Eartha Kitt

By Catherine Austin Fitts

On Coast to Coast AM the other night I was asked what I thought of the Common Core Curriculum…

By Dr. Tony Lima

For quite a few years my lovely wife has refused to believe any economic data from the U.S. government. Until recently, I have been a staunch defender of the statisticians and econo…

By Stacy Mitchell

Even as their big competitors are awash in capital, many locally owned businesses are struggling to secure the financing they need to grow. A new ILSR analysis has found that, sinc…

By Six Pixels of Seperation

This is probably one of the most eye-opening perspectives on the digital age that you will see.

We have new business models, brands that explode with popularity, platfo…

By Sam Ro

There are no perfect stock market indexes that’ll give you a complete picture of the state of the market.

Most market-watchers prefer the S&P 500 over the Dow Jones Industrial Average. B…

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By RT

The idea of traveling between the United States and China without flying might seem ridiculous to virtually everyone, but if Beijing gets its way that’s exa…

By The Mind Unleashed

Gregory Kloehn goes dumpster diving, but not for the reason that most people would think. He isn’t homeless. In fact, he is an artist from Oakland that is trying to help the…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The news today is mapping out a picture. In the first quarter of 2014, the US economy contracted. And yet the OECD says that the global econom…

By Annalyn Kurtz

There are two economic trends that Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen told Congress this week she finds “very disturbing.” Unfortunately, the Fed has very little power to fix either …

By Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist

My teenage son introduced me to a new slang term recently.

He mentioned that a friend said that he needed to try out for a certain soccer club team because he woul…

By Sarah Mulholland

Want to buy a trailer park? Freddie Mac wants to give you a loan.

The unit of the government-owned mortgage giant that funds apartment buildings is set to begin financing manufac…

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” —Maya Angelou

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Our hero this week on the Solari Report is Mayor Adam Sanchez of Desert…

By Jesse Drucker, Alan Katz and Andy Hoffman

Two years ago, a Dutch law firm prepared a pitch in Moscow to Russian businesses: come to the Netherlands and we can help you avoid taxes and keep your as…

By Christopher Ingraham

The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That’s the conclusion of a new study out from the Brookings Institution, which …

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By Richard Wolf

The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly upheld the centuries-old tradition of offering prayers to open government meetings, even if the prayers are overwhelmingly Christian and citizens …

By Richard Dolan

The very label [conspiracy] serves as an automatic dismissal, as though no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective and common sense to this issue.

The United States c…

By Paul Levy

I wonder if I am becoming addicted; I can’t get enough of quantum physics, which has captured – and simultaneously liberated – my imagination beyond belief. My appetite for what it i…

**CAF Note: I am always amazed when someone complains to me that “no one warned us” as, of course, I spent a great deal of time and millions of dollars in an attempt to warn as many people as …